tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post1568592704485229665..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Three beautiful things for a cold-stricken time Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-64779282680522681572013-12-24T01:05:54.506+01:002013-12-24T01:05:54.506+01:00Oh, thank you for the Colin and Li Yi video--much ...Oh, thank you for the Colin and Li Yi video--much enjoyed.<br /><br />I have used LibraVox... I like it, though sometimes they use many voices and that sometimes bothers me. "Far Away and Long Ago" I hadn't read since childhood. And Wilkie Collins--listened to some of the Moonstone just the other night.<br /><br />And I like wasabi too!<br /><br />Merry Christmas, when it comes!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-41332822939661310602013-12-23T19:03:41.080+01:002013-12-23T19:03:41.080+01:00Interesting that you should have got used to and n...Interesting that you should have got used to and not minded the American voice. It strikes me that a contemporary of Jane Austen would have recognised it better than present day middle class, home counties English.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-5574522980750785842013-12-22T03:19:38.754+01:002013-12-22T03:19:38.754+01:00That's an amazing video. Thanks for sharing i...That's an amazing video. Thanks for sharing it. Happy holidays, Lucy.Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-11688468526061270142013-12-21T16:09:58.120+01:002013-12-21T16:09:58.120+01:00Happy Winter Solstice to you and Tom and Mol (send...Happy Winter Solstice to you and Tom and Mol (sending fur ruffles)! Glad to hear you're feeling better and thankful you've shared this wonderful video.<br /><br />As for Wasabi ... you would love the wasabi farm I visited years ago in Japan. It was summer, so we had wasabi ice cream. Better tasting than you'd expect!<br /><br />Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-73203200346753279782013-12-21T10:13:04.223+01:002013-12-21T10:13:04.223+01:00The Google graphic has an animated knitting theme....The Google graphic has an animated knitting theme. I take that as a briefly positive augury.<br /><br />Yours seems the only blog where I can drop this tiny episode. I know you can be touched by poignancy but I'm not sure if this is poignant. I'm not looking for a response.<br /><br />I worked with RF in Bradford on the same newspapers. Eventually he reached The Times and our lives ceased to overlap. Two years ago he contacted me; we met as a foursome with our wives in rural Derbyshire; thereafter we started on a project strange and outmoded in this day and age - three or four times a year we exchanged long (2500 - 3000 words) letters, printed out, put into envelopes and despatched by Royal Mail.<br /><br />Early last year I sent off my Letter Eleven in the sequence. No response. I re-read what I'd sent, imagined I detected mild criticism to a passage of doggerel he'd written, automatically assumed the blame (I always do in similar circumstances), shrugged my shoulders and connived at the silence. Then came Christmas card time. I've never been enamoured by these fake expressions of friendship but I decided on a flyer: "Is it something I wrote?" Back came his card yesterday. Obviously his response to No. 11 had gone astray. Might normal service be resumed?<br /><br />As you know my working days are cluttered up with the novel, the blog and the short stories. Do I need any further writing obligations? Well yes, I do. The letters are special. They demand discipline and when they're finished (much revision) they're... tangible. 2013 hasn't been memorable for good news. I was pleased about this.<br /><br />A happy, healthy Christmas to you and Tom. Not forgetting Mol.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-17584008964465800132013-12-19T05:09:24.131+01:002013-12-19T05:09:24.131+01:00I love the video, especially that moment when the ...I love the video, especially that moment when the music stops and all you hear is rushing water or a coming storm.<br /><br />Also, I hope you had a happy birthday; I wish you joy, good health and peace.HKatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653570160517335758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-60574881874607927212013-12-19T03:12:17.883+01:002013-12-19T03:12:17.883+01:00Snot is eternal.Snot is eternal.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-77754431699249953692013-12-18T03:12:53.854+01:002013-12-18T03:12:53.854+01:00Thanks for posting the charming video, Lucy. Glad ...Thanks for posting the charming video, Lucy. Glad the awful cold is receding, they do hang on so very long at this time of year. My uncle Jacque's remedy, before, during and after a cold, was to boil together - with their skins left on - an orange, a lemon and a grapefruit, and to drink this potion hot throughout the day. All that vitamin C probably helps.Natalie d'Arbeloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757081405040926647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-92016416551734473422013-12-17T20:34:34.238+01:002013-12-17T20:34:34.238+01:00Thanks all.
Ellena, there are inevitably long str...Thanks all.<br /><br />Ellena, there are inevitably long stretches of repetitious knitting where one can quite easily listen to and indeed look at other things with adequate attention, but in fact I find if I have a complicated bit to do and lots of counting, I can't really concentrate enough. For these music is better, though even that can be a distraction, or television/films that one isn't really all that interested in or which are so familiar you don't need to pay them much attention. Double bills of Poirot are very productive, I find! so glad you are able to take up the needles again, bon courage!<br /><br />Colin and Li Yi, so lovely to see you here, I'm very honoured to feature your work here, and wish you all good things for Christmas and New Year.<br /><br />Christopher - thanks, dear heart. Mol is still going strong, despite lumps and bumps and a grey muzzle, but she still often takes life at a run, even if long walks are out!<br /><br />ML - thank you, it really has been a horrid cold and is only just on its way out. I remember you mentioning The Night Circus, it's a wonderful book I think and has a popular following among a number of people I know; my niece Tamsin and Colin and Li Yi found it quite inspiring I think. Glad you like their work, they are so talented and lovely people too.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-89331024368120335562013-12-16T20:28:45.169+01:002013-12-16T20:28:45.169+01:00Lucy, sorry you have a cold, hope all these deligh...Lucy, sorry you have a cold, hope all these delightful remedies you are sharing have helped you get better quickly.<br /><br />I loved reading 'The Night Circus'! Thanks for the link to its own fabulous website which I must have missed when I'd mentioned the book in a blog post a few months ago. Colin and Li Yi's work is marvelous.<br /><br />Take care of youself so you can enjoy the Christmas preparations!<br /><br />marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-47121265042722357302013-12-16T14:51:29.803+01:002013-12-16T14:51:29.803+01:00Happy Christmas to you and Tom. You both are of c...Happy Christmas to you and Tom. You both are of course among my favorites of all my blogging friends. And to Mol as well, a good scratch around the ears.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-15771568203703220172013-12-16T11:21:26.301+01:002013-12-16T11:21:26.301+01:00Thank you so much for sharing this Lucy. Its messa...Thank you so much for sharing this Lucy. Its messages like yours that make it all worth while. Have a beautiful Christmas and a lovely new year.Colin and Li Yinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-59335143011116402612013-12-15T20:57:35.739+01:002013-12-15T20:57:35.739+01:00Thank you for all these gifts, Lucy.
I discovered ...Thank you for all these gifts, Lucy.<br />I discovered that I can knit again without getting cramps. Now I have to see if I can knit and listen at the same time without making mistakes. Listening to Chamber music is one thing but to a story is another. I will find out.Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.com